Tabitha

TW: vibes, doomerism, speculation, no sources

unfortunately going with the liberal definition of GFW. We're getting the version the average american was told China has. In the last few years, social networks have been making significant strides away from openness (Twitter, reddit most notably), others were never open (facebook, instagram, etc.), one big player is on the chopping block (tiktok). I'm not sure how crypto-bros tie into all of this, but Trump's truth social was founded by them, and they seem to have bought a shitton of candidates on both sides. Net neutrality is probably on the chopping block as well. I could totally see lemmy, hexbear, mastadon, other random small social media sites, being inaccessible without a VPN sometimes in the next 4 years. News websites that report accurately on upcoming concentration camps in Texas might become geoblocked in your state in some way.

I'm not sure what, but I think something is around the corner. I haven't seen much post-election conversation on this category of topic.

This was a comment somewhere else, I wanted to make my own thread on it. One of these spoiler tags has a long rant.

I think Stranger Things S1 is pretty good. After S1, you can stop at any time you're no longer feeling it and not be missing out on anything.

TW: Harry Potter

Video discusses flaws of the Harry Potter works by J.K. Rowling with comparisons to how other fictional YA novels/tv shows handled problematic topics.

Like do kids get made fun of for watching PragerU child indoctrination content, are they embarrassed that other kids get to watch "good shows", does it never get brought up, does it divide classmates politically earlier in life, or like what?

The doxing I'm talking about happened years ago, don't worry about that, everybody already went home on that, can't give any more information without redoxxing myself.

I accidentally noticed I was logged into imgur today, I don't use the website, so that's a surprise. I decided to wander an old album of random person shit that shouldn't be uploaded straight into NSA land (aka five eyes, imgur, etc.), but you know, facebook/insta is probably technically worse and I got a lot more there anyways.

I saw I had a random picture that could best be described as a horny prank photo, with my computer screen VERY VISIBLE AND READABLE in the background. I was curious about what the background details were on my computer, and then I noticed something very embarrassing. I had a windows download window open, and one of the files downloaded was a PDF with MY FULL NAME on on the filename, and MY UNIVERSITY's DOMAIN as the download source for the file.

I remember the historical context of how and why I shared this picture, I'm aware of like 100 online mostly anonymous people, any one of which may have kept a copy for who knows how long, but long enough to figure out how to punish me for such a dumb mistake. I think for this theory to work, they must have gone to uni with me or have met one of my classmates, but that would be hard to prove without DMing lots of acquaintances on fb/insta, but everyone I'm online friends with from uni is basically upgraded to sus right now, this person might even be trying to collect more things on me until the time is right for a round 2.

America delenda est.

context: https://hexbear.net/comment/4777716